Last year, I spent a blissful 48 hours with colleagues in Piemonte’s Langhe region. We spent our time admiring spectacular views, eating vitello tonnato, and consuming copious amounts of Barolo – all accompanied by some incredibly generous, passionate people. It was a life-affirming, joyous trip which reminded me why I’m in the wine business. By the end of the first day, I had fallen for the Langhe, hook line and sinker. And this was before something happened to me that, as y